Best Paper Award

Every second year we give out awards to papers published within our consortium that are deemed to be exemplary. The first author receives a 500 CHF cash prize and a certificate.

To submit a paper, login to the Intranet (NCCR Robotics members only) where instructions for the Best Paper Award are available.

2016 Best Paper Award

The 2016 NCCR Robotics Best Postdoc Paper was awarded to Marco Capogrosso for his paper Mechanisms Underlying the Neuromodulation of Spinal Circuits for Correcting Gait and Balance Deficits after Spinal Cord Injury. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.01.009

The 2016 NCCR Robotics PhD Best Paper was awarded to Jun Shintake for his paper Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on mulifunctional polymer actuators DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504264

A special mention was given to Michael Neunert for his paper Fast nonliner Model Predictive Control for Unified Trajectory Optimization and Tracking DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487274

2012 Best Paper Award

Best PhD Paper awarded to Michal Dobrzynski for the paper entitled Quantifying information transfer through a head attached vibrotactile display: principles for design and control. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2196433